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Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State (greenwald.substack.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hacker News.

Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 36 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Yall are fucking morons

I don't think you're insulting the right audience here.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, we're the people who've been sounding the alarm for 20+ years. I'm tired boss

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I swear the friendly future I had hoped of as a kid in the 80s/90s was either all propaganda, hijacked, or we actually did end up in an alternate timeline of pure fuckery.

This is not the future I evangelized.

And yeah, those of us who grew up through it have seen the horrific turn of things have taken from potential world changing awesome humanity, to absolute evil.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I'm pretty sure plenty if not most of people here pay most of their shopping with a card rather than cash, even though that shit at minimum goes into a database for ever and ever, probably shared with the authorities and in some countries just outright sold for pennies to anybody willing to pay for it.

And don't get me started with just how many Techies jumped into Tesla's "surveillance nightmare on wheels" - I mean, Techies were very much a large block of early adopters of Tesla cars and this was already well after the Snowden Revelations.

Further, how many people are in the habit of accessing the Internet behind a VPN?

(Personally, living in Britain - maybe the worst offender - at the time, the Snowden Revelations were what prompted me to start using a VPN regularly)

Whilst lots of people here have an actual "lets keep my digital footprint" mindset and praxis, I get the impression that most do not, and even those who bitch and moan about "surveillance" trade convenience (or, even worse, the Techie desire for "shinny new thing" thus getting shit like Alexa) for high digital visibility.

So yeah, maybe not "Yall", but probably "Most of you".